He takes the kris (yours, if you prefer it) from its wooden handle, and, holding the steel point downwards in his left hand, he recites a short incantation to the effect that he knows all about iron, and where it comes from, and that it must obey his orders.
— from Malay Magic Being an introduction to the folklore and popular religion of the Malay Peninsula by Walter William Skeat

The most talented could, therefore, hardly hope to succeed in this task, even though he had penetrated deeply into its nature, and become intimately acquainted with its peculiarities.
— from History of the Jews, Vol. 2 (of 6) by Heinrich Graetz

Once, in a pleasant glow of inspiration (having suddenly mastered the French language, to my own great surprise), I tried to express to him my idea of the 'artistic conception.'
— from My Life — Volume 2 by Richard Wagner

But before they had run a dozen steps each of them was aware that they could not reach safety in time to escape the hoofs rushing toward them so heavily that the ground quaked.
— from Wyoming: A Story of the Outdoor West by William MacLeod Raine

Coming back, the wind rose to a gale, and the sailors, in trying to enter the harbour, ran the boat against one of the piers with such violence, that it upset, and the whole party were thrown into the water.
— from Flora Lyndsay; or, Passages in an Eventful Life, Vol. I. by Susanna Moodie

Tyrone, however, was dogged by spies while he was in London, and one Atkinson swore informations to the effect that he was in the habit of entertaining a Jesuit named Archer, who was intriguing with the foreign enemies of England, and who was held by Irish royalists for 'the most bloody and treacherous traitor, who could divert Tyrone and all the rest from the king, and thrust them again into actual rebellion.'
— from The Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times by James Godkin

(1) the bird meant by palumbes , of which Virgil makes the shepherd Damoetas say in the third Eclogue that he has “marked the place where they have gathered materials for nesting,” [54] and of which Pliny tells his readers that when they see this bird upon her nest they may know that midsummer is past (Pliny, Nat. Hist. xviii. 267); (2) the bird named columba , which word, though etymologically the same as palumbes , is used by Pliny, and also by the Roman agricultural writers, to represent a bird which is certainly to be distinguished from palumbes .
— from A Year with the Birds Third Edition, Enlarged by W. Warde (William Warde) Fowler

No sooner is the text enunciated than he plunges at once into his subject, developing and illustrating his meaning with a brilliancy and rapidity unparalleled in the pulpit at the present day.
— from The London Pulpit by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie

She was at once struck with awe and admiration; so I tried to explain to her the nature of the contents of the volume.
— from Celtic Folklore: Welsh and Manx (Volume 2 of 2) by Rhys, John, Sir

Piously and devoutly brought up, he saw in the two escapes that he had had, from death at the hands of the Romans, signs of a special protection of God.
— from For the Temple: A Tale of the Fall of Jerusalem by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

Of Molech little is said in the tablets, except that “he took the children,” [
— from Persian Literature, Ancient and Modern by Elizabeth A. (Elizabeth Armstrong) Reed